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      <title><![CDATA[#45 I don’t care]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[What is the weirdest thing you have ever seen on public transport? And did you care? Do you care when someone is unpacking and repacking their luggage? Do you care when…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#44 How (not) to swear]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[First things first: It is never wrong not to swear. When we are little, we learn that swearwords are “bad”. We discover that swearwords provoke strong reactions in…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#43 A change of heart]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[When did you last change your mind about something? Like what you want to order in a restaurant, or whether you like the colour orange, or hot weather, or whether you…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#42 When lightning (doesn’t) strike]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[When was the last time you learned a new word in German? I would guess that it is not very long ago. We pick up new words all the time, even in our own language. In this…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#41 Red threads?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[How do you talk about „der rote Faden“ in English? You can already guess it: It’s not as simple as a „red thread“. No matter whether your English never loses its train…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#40 Chasing Squirrels]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[I love cryptic crosswords. You might enjoy Sudoku puzzles. Or baking. Or knitting. Maybe you enjoy building model airplanes. Or you draw. Maybe you love repairing bikes.…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#39 Not knowing means not knowing]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Not knowing how to clean out a gutter is … okay? Not knowing how to change a wound dressing is … fine? Not knowing how to pronounce “cleanliness” in English is … not a…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#38 Free Time for Banks?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[In the UK, there are two bank holidays in May. Yay! But hang on, what are bank holidays? And why are they always on a Monday? Don’t they move – like the public holidays…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#37 Your T-shirt is ugly!]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[“Your T-shirt is ugly!” The person at the table next to you points at your chest and laughs. You look down at your chest. Oh no. You are wearing THAT T-shirt. How could…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#36 What are you braying?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[We are all mind readers. That person is angry. That person is sad. That person is arrogant. We also do this with animals: This donkey is greedy. That donkey is…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#35 “Computer says no”]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[“Computer says no.” This line from the British comedy series Little Britain describes an experience that we all know: We want to do something, and a computer system…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#34 Asparagus season]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It's that time of the year: Spargelzeit! Time for asparagus! Which raises two questions: Do you like asparagus or not? And do you prefer white or green asparagus? This…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#33 Intolerance(s)]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[“Any allergies or intolerances?” Entering a restaurant when you have a food intolerance is a bit like joining a conversation in a foreign language. How will people…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#32 Flotsam and jetsam]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[On my desk, I have a small pebble that I picked up on a beach. It is white, slightly rough, and it fits easily into the palm of my hand. It's not too heavy and not too…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#31 A great little gadget]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Do you need a strawberry huller? Maybe you do. Maybe you don’t. If you make a lot of jam, you might love a little gadget that helps you to remove the green tops of your…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#30 Spring into spring]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It is spring, and I want to go and look at lambs. For me, lambs are an essential part of “what spring looks like”. Spring also looks like blue skies, green fields, and…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#29 Friction]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Friction is bad. We spend a lot of energy removing it — from our workflows, our kitchens, our daily routines. The smoother, the better. Right? But what if friction is…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#28 Let’s go birding!]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Birdsong. Right now, it’s everywhere. And unless you are an avid birder or a keen twitcher, you probably only recognise a handful of species when you hear them. I don’t…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#27 Maybe. Maybe not.]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Maybe is a great word. It can mean yes or no, or “I don’t know”. You can use it to sound critical, supportive, evasive or unsure. Maybe is also a great “thinking tool”.…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#26 Do as I say - not as I do]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[What is the best piece of advice anyone has ever shared with you? Do you follow it? Consistently? Occasionally? Reluctantly, maybe? And do you ever give advice that you…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#25 Drawn that way]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Do you know the film “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”? In this film, cartoon characters – the “Toons” – co-exist with real-life human characters. And one of the Toons, the…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#24 Did you dress up?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Do you celebrate Carnival? I am not a massive fan, but when I lived in the UK, I realised very quickly just how deeply this season is ingrained in my sense of how the…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#23 What a lovely compliment!]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Imagine you are at a party. You are introduced to the friend of a friend. She greets you with a friendly “hi”, followed by “I love your jacket!” How do you react?…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#22 Only other people are impressive]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[“It never feels impressive when you do it yourself, right?” The things we do often feel ordinary. Our skills, our achievements, our activities – most of the time, we…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#21 Deceptively simple]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A print on a wall. It’s a simple drawing, or so it seems. A few lines on paper, nothing more. It’s an animal. A cow. No, a bull. When people see Picasso’s line drawings…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[#20 Slow is smooth]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The cars go at 200 mph. A tyre change takes 2 seconds. In F1, things happen quickly. But, as we all know, when we do things too quickly, we make mistakes. In F1, messing…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#19 Treadmill problems]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[For the past few years, I've been trying to get into a running routine. I actually enjoy running, but I don’t run as often as I would like to. I like running, but I…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#18 Re-fighting the last election]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[“I don’t think you can win the next election by re-fighting the last one.” I heard that sentence in an interview with the journalist Ezra Klein, and it struck me as a…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 08:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#17 Crossing Bridges]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Do you know the expression “We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it”? It means: We will deal with this problem when - and if - it happens. We are not standing in…]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/51815887-c879-4942-9fd0-052cac8dc573/posts/75c1fb51-ba15-4b51-8c6c-0d1b14130247</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#16 Christmas Quiz with Sania & Phil]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Awww - Christmas. You might love it. You might hate it. You might have mixed feelings about it. Either way, there’s nothing like a Christmas Quiz to learn more about the…]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/51815887-c879-4942-9fd0-052cac8dc573/posts/fce3487e-ac3a-4404-9567-c6e0a897e63f</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#15 The sum of your experience]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[How is your language intuition doing? You know that feeling when a native speaker tells you something "just sounds right", but they can't explain why? That's a form of…]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/51815887-c879-4942-9fd0-052cac8dc573/posts/57390dcd-8f1f-4537-9177-5848ce083bd3</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#14 It’s a wrap!]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It is time to "wrap". We're wrapping up in warm coats, we're wrapping up the first Christmas presents, and we're wrapping up the final projects before our holidays. And…]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/51815887-c879-4942-9fd0-052cac8dc573/posts/5cc3de35-669c-4ac6-b064-4eefa49ba2da</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#13 Show some backbone]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Show some backbone - grow a spine! Just like in German, "showing backbone" means that someone has the strength to do difficult things, and to act in line with their…]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/51815887-c879-4942-9fd0-052cac8dc573/posts/73a5fa57-f597-45df-9191-70a101d1917e</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#12 All that jam]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Do you like jam? If so: How many types of jam do you have on your breakfast table? How many types of jam do we need anyway? The “jam question” is really a question about…]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/51815887-c879-4942-9fd0-052cac8dc573/posts/44fec025-ab95-45e3-84c8-2dfec8905927</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#11 Do you enjoy the sound of silence?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[How do you feel about silence? Not all silences are equal. Some are companionable. Others are awkward. And some forms of silence are just uncomfortable. And then there…]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/51815887-c879-4942-9fd0-052cac8dc573/posts/2a3ed2c3-d8e6-476f-9564-d8717c720373</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#10 Pottering around]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Do you enjoy pottering around? Pottering around is the process of doing bits and bobs around the house, the garden, the garage or the shed - but without the pressure of…]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/51815887-c879-4942-9fd0-052cac8dc573/posts/b5b7ebb0-efa2-42e4-b0c7-127526ee85ba</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 06:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#09 Remember, remember]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Do you remember the 5th of November 2003? I do. You might remember it, too, if it was an important day, or a birthday, or an anniversary. What makes us remember some…]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/51815887-c879-4942-9fd0-052cac8dc573/posts/bc2c19b7-a8a3-4541-a4ab-2d1879e76631</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#08 Trust the process]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Trust the process. You've heard this statement before. You might agree with it. But do you really believe it? There are probably areas in your life where you trust your…]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/51815887-c879-4942-9fd0-052cac8dc573/posts/3528bdbe-7fc9-4bf2-981c-9b7f73386ed0</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 09:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#07 More or less]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[What do you want more of in your life? What would you like less of? These aren't just questions for New Year's resolutions. They're questions that can help you reset at…]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/51815887-c879-4942-9fd0-052cac8dc573/posts/b00428d2-6ee4-44df-abfc-54d2eaa44561</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 06:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#06 Serendipity]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Have you ever discovered something wonderful, completely unexpectedly? A beautiful café that you noticed while you were going by on the bus? Words in a book that…]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/51815887-c879-4942-9fd0-052cac8dc573/posts/c383c772-8175-4f0e-9072-6e9378eb3f1e</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 06:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#05 A fresh start]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The perfect filing system. The perfect vocabulary notebook. The perfect cleaning routine. Do they exist? Probably not. Here's one thing I know: When it comes to systems,…]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/51815887-c879-4942-9fd0-052cac8dc573/posts/446063c7-c235-477a-8d61-c69aed1ad0e1</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 07:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#04 I am excited!]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[We all know this feeling before an exam, a performance, a test, or any other challenge where we want to do well: Our heart starts to beat faster, and then there is that…]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/51815887-c879-4942-9fd0-052cac8dc573/posts/fd5c26af-ed7d-4d6a-b1a2-14c0582ed1db</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 07:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#03 Do something that scares you.]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Do something that scares you. Where does your English fall: Scary? Terrifying? Or actually a bit ... exciting?]]></description>
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      <link>https://steady.page/51815887-c879-4942-9fd0-052cac8dc573/posts/f5026dd2-b1c7-4f95-baaf-96308ce423bd</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 14:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#02 On Being Extraordinary]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Let's talk about "being ordinary". Meet Auggie. Auggie is the main character in "Wonder" by R.J. Palacio. And Auggie can teach you a thing or two about being…]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 11:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[#1 Let’s talk about books, baby.]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Let’s talk about books. If you regularly get stuck when you want to say what you like about books, which kinds of books you read, and whether you prefer fiction or…]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Books, Podcasts, Films]]></category>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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